Chapter 1072: 百世憨痴鹊菲茵

Qin Mu laughed heartily, stepped out of his imperial carriage, and said, "Mu Qing greets Sister Southern Emperor!"

"Mu Qing? Sister Southern Emperor?"The red-clad maiden looked puzzled. Her voice was soft and sweet, but her demeanor was somewhat innocent and simple-minded. She smiled and said, "You are Mu Qing, but I am not your sister. You silly person, you've mistaken me for someone else. I am Que Feiyin, a disciple of Heavenly Venerate Yue."

Qin Mu felt suspicious. "Did I really make a mistake? This woman is dressed in scarlet, her attire similar to the Southern Emperor's. And the vermillion bird feather tucked into her hair is undoubtedly the Southern Emperor's Phoenix Plume. I couldn't possibly be mistaken! Moreover, the poem she just sang possessed extraordinary grandeur and broad-mindedness, evoking the spirit of 'all rivers flowing into the sea, with stars encircling.' How could a simple-minded person compose such a work?"

He asked about it, and the red-clad maiden, Que Feiyin, replied, "This is Emperor Yun's poem, not mine. I heard him sing it and learned it."

The Dragon Qilin said, "Miss Feiyin, our cult master is a friend of Heavenly Venerate Yue and has come to pay his respects. Could you please announce our arrival?"

"My master is not here," Que Feiyin replied, examining them. "Master and Heavenly Venerate Yun have gone out and are not in the Celestial Heavens. Are you truly Master's acquaintances? I don't recognize you."

Qin Mu stepped out of the imperial carriage. The eyelid on his forehead slowly parted, revealing his vertical eye, which immediately allowed him to see Que Feiyin's past and present lives with perfect clarity.

His divine eye had integrated more Primordial Stones, granting it even greater mystical abilities.

He saw that tens of thousands of years ago, in the location of the Southern Vermillion Bird Palace in the starry sky, a ball of fire descended from the heavens and landed in an ordinary household in the Primordial Realm.

Ten months later, the woman of the house gave birth to a daughter. When the infant girl was born, the sky was filled with red clouds, which transformed into vermillion birds circling the birthing room.

After this girl was born and grew up, Heavenly Venerate Yue came, took her as a disciple, taught her various divine arts and Dao techniques, and brought her to the Empyrean Celestial Heavens.

However, during a battle with the Dragon Han Celestial Heavens, this girl encountered Heavenly Venerate Yin. In an instant, Heavenly Venerate Yin seized her soul and killed her on the spot.

Heavenly Venerate Yue was enraged, severely wounded Heavenly Venerate Yin, and retrieved the soul.

That night, Heavenly Venerate Yue found Heavenly Venerate You, who was collecting wandering souls on the battlefield, and entrusted the girl's soul to him.

Ten more months passed, and another infant girl was born. She was again taken as a disciple by Heavenly Venerate Yue. She was extraordinarily intelligent, grasping any divine art or Dao technique instantly, yet she had no memory of her past life and did not know who she was.

However, her good fortune did not last. During one of her travels, she perished amidst an encirclement by demigods. That time, too, Heavenly Venerate Yin led demigods in an invasion of human territory.

Qin Mu then saw her third, fourth, fifth, and subsequent reincarnations...

Each time this woman reincarnated, she would inexplicably die, and each time her death was at the hands of Heavenly Venerate Yin.

Reincarnation after reincarnation caused her previous spiritual essence and memories to gradually fade. By Que Feiyin's current life, it was already her hundredth incarnation.

Although Heavenly Venerate Yue still took her as a disciple and diligently taught her, Que Feiyin had become somewhat simple-minded and was called "Silly Que."

"Heavenly Venerate Yin is doing this on purpose. His Youdu Dao has reached an extraordinary level, allowing him to discern the origins of the Southern Emperor's Vermillion Bird soul's reincarnation, which is why he can find her accurately every time!"

Qin Mu felt a surge of anger. Under the gaze of his vertical eye, he had seen the Southern Emperor Vermillion Bird's reincarnated body die ninety-nine times. Each death was either directly by Heavenly Venerate Yin's hand or related to him!

"Heavenly Venerate Yin has profound mastery over the path of souls. He must have tampered with the Southern Emperor's soul, causing her to fall into a 'womb delusion' and never realize she is the Southern Emperor. This scoundrel has schemed against the Southern Emperor, and also against Lady Tianyin and Di Yiyue. It seems he holds a deep-seated grudge against beautiful women!"

Qin Mu composed himself, making an effort to look kind and benevolent. He beckoned to Que Feiyin and smiled, "Miss Feiyin, come over here. I have a wonderful treasure to show you."

Que Feiyin, half-believing and half-doubting, jumped off the ship and approached the imperial carriage, curiously asking, "What kind of treasure?"

Qin Mu wore a knowing smile, thinking, "It's truly remarkable that this silly girl has managed to live this long."

Que Feiyin burst out laughing. "You, sir, have a sly look in your eyes. You're probably a scoundrel! Where's the treasure? Hurry up and show me; I won't steal it!"

Just as Qin Mu was about to carefully examine her soul to see what Heavenly Venerate Yin had done, someone suddenly called out, "Silly Que, why are you on someone else's carriage?"

Yan'er and Que Feiyin both responded at the same time. Yan'er lowered her head, somewhat annoyed, "Why did I answer too?"

Que Feiyin quickly jumped out of the imperial carriage and said, "My senior sisters are calling me. I'll look at your treasure later!"

Qin Mu was observing the source of the "womb delusion" in her soul, vaguely seeing a portal, which appeared to be Heavenly Venerate Yin's Mingdu Heavenly Gate. Meanwhile, Que Feiyin had already run off to rejoin the young men and women on the multi-decked ship.

Qin Mu pondered for a moment. He had just witnessed a peculiar scene: Que Feiyin was a reincarnated soul of the Southern Emperor Vermillion Bird, but this particular soul was killed by Heavenly Venerate Yin in every reincarnation.

And with each death, this soul of hers would pass through Heavenly Venerate Yin's Mingdu Heavenly Gate.

After passing through the Mingdu Heavenly Gate, this soul of the Southern Emperor would gain a Heavenly Soul and an Earthly Soul, as well as the seven Corporeal Souls, thereby completing her three souls and seven corporeal souls.

"This means that the Southern Emperor reincarnated with her Divine Soul, and ninety-nine deaths later, Heavenly Venerate Yin supplemented her three souls and seven corporeal souls ninety-nine times, eroding her divine nature."

Qin Mu looked at the young men and women at the bow of the ship. They were likely Heavenly Venerate Yue's disciples and were very wary of him. They were talking to Que Feiyin, probably cautioning her not to talk to strangers.

"After ninety-nine reincarnations, the Southern Emperor has effectively been sealed ninety-nine times. Her divine nature has become negligible. If she undergoes one more reincarnation, the Southern Emperor's Divine Soul will be completely lost, and she may never awaken again."

Qin Mu couldn't help but marvel, "If the Southern Emperor's reincarnated body dies one more time, she will become a mortal. Heavenly Venerate Yin is indeed remarkable to be able to create soul-manipulating spells against ancient gods in this era; he truly lives up to his title as the Black Emperor. His patience is also astonishing, to be able to scheme against the Southern Emperor ninety-nine times in a row with such persistent effort!"

He was now completely confident in deciphering Heavenly Venerate Yin's divine arts.

However, the most crucial problem was how to ensure the Southern Emperor's reincarnated body survived in the ancient era.

He only had four chances left to travel back to ancient times; on the fifth attempt, he would be assimilated into an unchangeable substance. He couldn't constantly protect this silly girl from Heavenly Venerate Yin's repeated attacks.

Heavenly Venerate Yin's tenacious patience gave him a major headache.

More importantly, this fellow was handsome, making it difficult for women to remain vigilant despite his attractive appearance.

"The one in that carriage is clearly a bad person! Bad people always claim to have a great treasure to trick naive young girls!" On the ship, one of Heavenly Venerate Yue's female disciples was instructing Que Feiyin, and after speaking, she glanced at Qin Mu.

Qin Mu pondered for a moment, then cut a piece of exquisite jade from a Jade Mountain in his ancestral land, Qin Continent. He meticulously carved it, and with a thought, his primordial spirit transformed into the form of Earth Count.

From his primordial spirit's mouth came deep, low Youdu words. With each syllable uttered, Youdu demonic energy transformed into Youdu script, imprinting itself onto the jade pendant.

The Youdu words grew even deeper and hoarser, as if an ancient god who commanded souls was chanting in a low voice.

On the multi-decked ship, Heavenly Venerate Yue's disciples felt a chill. The female disciple who had just spoken hastily pulled Que Feiyin and motioned towards the imperial carriage with her lips, "Silly Que, look there!"

Que Feiyin leaned over the bow and looked down, only to see that the Celestial Dragon Imperial Carriage was following their ship, never leaving its side.

At that moment, immensely dense Youdu demonic energy surged around the Celestial Dragon Imperial Carriage, like colossal black pythons, intertwining and weaving around the carriage, a truly astonishing sight!

Que Feiyin was startled and quickly pulled back, saying, "Senior sister, the person in the carriage is not good!"

"Of course, they're not good people!" everyone exclaimed. "They're targeting us now! Master said that you've been plagued by misfortunes since childhood, and a death tribulation awaits you in the future. Now, it seems your death tribulation has arrived!"

Que Feiyin paced back and forth anxiously, like an ant on a hot pan. "What should we do? Master isn't in the Celestial Heavens, and neither are Senior Uncle Ling nor Senior Uncle Yun. Who can stop this great devil?"

Everyone immediately panicked. "Quiet! Be careful, that devil might hear you!"

Below, faint whispers of demonic language emanated from the Celestial Dragon Imperial Carriage, incredibly evil. The demonic aura emanating from the carriage grew stronger and stronger, making everyone's scalp tingle.

"It's probably a great demon king from Youdu!"

Inside the carriage, Qin Mu changed several runes in succession, finally forging the jade pendant. He called Yan'er over and said, "Give this jade pendant to Que Feiyin and tell her it's a welcome gift from me. Also, ask her for the vermillion bird feather from her hair."

Yan'er took the jade pendant and tentatively asked, "Young Master, is that Que Feiyin my mother?"

Qin Mu nodded.

Yan'er seemed a little reluctant. "She looks so silly. How can she be my mother?"

Qin Mu laughed and said, "Go on, go on!"

Yan'er flew onto the multi-decked ship. The ship was fleeing towards the Empyrean Celestial Heavens, attempting to shake off the Celestial Dragon Imperial Carriage, but it couldn't.

When everyone saw Yan'er flying up, the chubby azure bird transforming into a big, plump girl, they felt a chill. "The demon king's maidservant has boarded the ship! Sister Que's bloody disaster has probably arrived!"

Yan'er stepped forward and said, "Mother... Miss, this is the treasure Young Master wanted to show you."

Que Feiyin wanted to go forward and look, but she was held back by the others, who feared that the naive girl would fall prey to foul play.

Yan'er suddenly pushed forward, squeezing past the others, and slipped the jade pendant into Que Feiyin's hand, saying, "This is from Young Master for you!"

Everyone was greatly alarmed. Just as they were about to activate their divine arts, the surrounding space suddenly cracked open, and their distance from Yan'er and Que Feiyin grew wider and wider. They were all greatly astonished.

The divine art Yan'er had used was, surprisingly, of the same lineage as theirs, directly inherited, both being Heavenly Venerate Yue's divine arts!

Que Feiyin, however, was not surprised at all. She curiously examined the jade pendant, overjoyed, and said, "There really is a treasure! My senior brothers and sisters said the young master in the carriage was a bad person who tricks naive girls!"

She hung the jade pendant around her neck, and with a whoosh, it vanished into her body!

"You tricked me!" Que Feiyin flared up in anger, grabbing Yan'er. "The beautiful jade pendant is gone again!"

Qin Mu's voice came through, "Miss Feiyin, look at your primordial spirit."

Que Feiyin quickly looked at her primordial spirit and found the jade pendant hanging around the neck of her Vermillion Bird primordial spirit. Her anger turned to joy, and she smiled, "So it's here."

Yan'er seized the opportunity to pull out the vermillion bird feather from Que Feiyin's hair. Que Feiyin became furious again, chasing after her and shouting, "That's my treasure! I don't want your treasure, give me back mine!"

Yan'er quickly flew onto the imperial carriage and shouted, "Hurry, hurry!"

The Dragon Qilin cracked his whip, and the six celestial dragons hastily pulled the imperial carriage away, fleeing into the distance. Que Feiyin relentlessly pursued them from behind, crying as she chased.

Her senior sisters and brothers quickly caught up to her, advising, "Silly Que, stop chasing! Fortunately, he was a trickster, not a killer, otherwise your life would be gone!"

Que Feiyin couldn't stop wiping away tears, sobbing, "That big plump girl tricked me. I hope I don't find her. If I do, I'll spank her bottom until it's bruised and swollen!"

"You barely managed to save your life, and you still dare to boast? Wait until Master returns and learns of this; she'll spank your bottom until it's bruised and swollen!"

As they were speaking, a buzzing sound came. They saw tiny insects flying from somewhere above the Celestial River, approaching the multi-decked ship.

Everyone looked and said, "It's so windy and wavy here. How are mosquitoes flying all the way up here?"

They shooed away the insects, but noticed that although the creatures were small, they looked fierce, with sharp fangs and proboscises, and even thorns in their mouths.

As they drove the insects away and wondered about them, Que Feiyin said, "I'm a little sleepy."

Everyone looked at her and was startled. In just a short moment, Que Feiyin had become emaciated and gaunt, her face pale with the pallor of death. A huge mosquito was clinging to her back, its proboscis inserted into her heart from behind, vigorously sucking blood. The mosquito's abdomen was already bloated and distended.

In the blink of an eye, the girl's vital energy and blood were drained by the mosquito, and she breathed her last!

Everyone fell into a panic, crying and lamenting.

————Happy Birthday, Lan Xiaojuan!